专题04 六选四10篇(第二期)-备战2024年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(上海专用)

备战2024年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(上海专用) 第二期 专题04 六选四10篇 （2023上·上海·高三校考阶段练习）How to Thrive in a video age The pandemic embedded video into the workplace. Workers who had never previously been on camera suddenly spent every hour of the day getting used to the sight of themselves and their colleagues on screen. 1 There is no going back. Blogs have become vlogs. Meetings are now recorded as a matter so that people can fail to watch them back later. Some firms routinely ask applicants to record answers to certain questions on video, so that people can’t see how well prospective recruits communicate. Since video has become more central to work, it pays to be good at it. 2 . Workers can improve under their own steam, but companies can help, too. To see what the right set-up looks like, just observe the range of images on your next, video-conferencing call. It will probably be a complete mishmash (大杂烩). Some people will be bathed in the warm glow of a ring light; others will be emerging from the shadows like the Emperor Palpatine. Obviously, there is a limit to how level the playing-field-between home offices can be, when living environments between employees differ so greatly. 3 : people who regularly make presentations or see clients have greater claim on fancier equipment. Advice on how to present well on video is not that different to advice on presenting in general. But there are some specific pitfalls with video. One is where to look. Staring into the camera is unnatural. Some advice pinning a photo of someone you respect right by the lens. But looking at the camera is harder if you are referring to notes no the screen at the same time. Teleprompter (提词器) software maybe the right answer. Perhaps the least recognised skill in the video age is listening well. 4 — being able to turn your camera off when your time is being royally wasted may be the pandemic’s greatest gift to productivity. Yet one of the downsides is how distracting